Yeah, that's pretty typical of college towns. In far too many of them, local politicians hold the student body in outright contempt. (Despite the obvious fact that, if the student body were to go away, their entire local economy would shrivel and die, turning their college town into a ghost town!)
You can see this attitude on display in most places that have a significant student population and very little in the way of independent business not reliant on the student body. Strangely enough, in areas with a significant student population and strong independent business--where the town isn't reliant on the student body for survival--that attitude of contempt isn't as prominent. Seems kind of backwards to me, no?
The post was also couched in threats for DMCA notices, which is completely expected, because extralegal, extrajudicial control and coercion is precisely what the DMCA was designed to enable.
Again, how can anyone talk about 5G when we don't even have 4G yet?
You never hear the companies explain what the LTE in "4G LTE" stands for. Why? Because it means "Long-Term Evolution." In other words, "we'll get around to implementing 4G eventually, but for now here's the bits and pieces we've got working."
Gotta agree with Alec Muffett here. I did a lot of game modding in high school and college. The skills I learned there were very influential in helping me get into a high-paying career as a software developer.
This is actually very tricky, as the fingerprinting comes by measuring a bunch of things that there are lots of legitimate, non-surveillance-related reasons to want to be able to measure. Thwarting it would basically require causing those APIs to lie, which would break a bunch of web apps.
I think this would be worthwhile for Google to do, but if they want to head off antitrust problems, they'd have to do it right: set it up in a way that makes it clear that they're not trying to cause problems for competitors.
IMO this would involve two steps. First, they should open-source it so all of the other ad-blocker developers can examine it, both to ensure that there's nothing bad in there and also so that they can incorporate useful principles into their own work.
Second, they should make it a discrete feature of the browser. Instead of being just another plugin, "the adblocker" would be A Thing, much like "the default browser" is A Thing in the operating system, and users could affirmatively change their adblocker from Chrome Adblocker to some other adblocker if they wished to do so.
Taking those two steps would give end-users all the benefits mentioned in the article while leaving competing adblocker developers with no reason to claim antitrust violations IMO.
The idea that the church can never move a statue in its courtyard just seems wrong. And, at the very least, this case is another example of why we should let the Copyright Office know that expanding moral rights is a really bad idea.
Does this even need to invoke moral rights? The agreement was that this was supposed to be permanent, and if the new rector doesn't like that agreement, he's free to not like it, but that doesn't give him any right to violate it.
Re: One man's terrorist is anothers freedom fighter
Don't be ridiculous. There's a very simple, clear, objective distinction to be made: legitimate freedom fighters fight against an oppressive regime, and attack government and military targets in the hopes of destabilizing their oppressors; terrorists attack civilians in the hopes of instilling terror in the populace.
There's plenty of room for ambiguity in this world; please don't try to inject more where none exists.
It's absolutely bonkers (and partially helped along by anti-tax groups saying that anything that makes paying taxes easier should be stopped because taxes are bad).
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Yeah, that's pretty typical of college towns. In far too many of them, local politicians hold the student body in outright contempt. (Despite the obvious fact that, if the student body were to go away, their entire local economy would shrivel and die, turning their college town into a ghost town!)
You can see this attitude on display in most places that have a significant student population and very little in the way of independent business not reliant on the student body. Strangely enough, in areas with a significant student population and strong independent business--where the town isn't reliant on the student body for survival--that attitude of contempt isn't as prominent. Seems kind of backwards to me, no?
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Fixed that for you...
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Facebook: "Don't even bother pretending we're not evil."
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Re: I am the system administrator.
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You never hear the companies explain what the LTE in "4G LTE" stands for. Why? Because it means "Long-Term Evolution." In other words, "we'll get around to implementing 4G eventually, but for now here's the bits and pieces we've got working."
And now this?!?
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Re: Re:
This is why they need to release the source. It keeps them accountable and leaves the competition with no excuse to claim they're up to no good.
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Re: Anti-Trust High Road
This is actually very tricky, as the fingerprinting comes by measuring a bunch of things that there are lots of legitimate, non-surveillance-related reasons to want to be able to measure. Thwarting it would basically require causing those APIs to lie, which would break a bunch of web apps.
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I think this would be worthwhile for Google to do, but if they want to head off antitrust problems, they'd have to do it right: set it up in a way that makes it clear that they're not trying to cause problems for competitors.
IMO this would involve two steps. First, they should open-source it so all of the other ad-blocker developers can examine it, both to ensure that there's nothing bad in there and also so that they can incorporate useful principles into their own work.
Second, they should make it a discrete feature of the browser. Instead of being just another plugin, "the adblocker" would be A Thing, much like "the default browser" is A Thing in the operating system, and users could affirmatively change their adblocker from Chrome Adblocker to some other adblocker if they wished to do so.
Taking those two steps would give end-users all the benefits mentioned in the article while leaving competing adblocker developers with no reason to claim antitrust violations IMO.
(IANAL TINLA)
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Does this even need to invoke moral rights? The agreement was that this was supposed to be permanent, and if the new rector doesn't like that agreement, he's free to not like it, but that doesn't give him any right to violate it.
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In general, yes. In every specific case, no.
In this specific case--pulling high-traffic, disruptive commercial activity into residential-zoned neighborhoods--that'd be a huge no.
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Wow. Usually we get into the comments before someone Godwins it...
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Re: One man's terrorist is anothers freedom fighter
Don't be ridiculous. There's a very simple, clear, objective distinction to be made: legitimate freedom fighters fight against an oppressive regime, and attack government and military targets in the hopes of destabilizing their oppressors; terrorists attack civilians in the hopes of instilling terror in the populace.
There's plenty of room for ambiguity in this world; please don't try to inject more where none exists.
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That actually sounds kind of awesome.
Intrusive and illegal, sure, but still, you just have to admire someone who's able to actually pull off a stunt like that!
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Why are you repeating yourself like that?
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[Insert "Well there's your problem right there" meme here...]
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